Monthly Commercial Report. 
DEATHS ABROAD, 
_ At Jamaica, Mrs, Mills, aged 118. She 
was followed to her grave by 295 of her 
children, grand-children, great grand-chil- 
dren, and great great grand children, fixty of © 
whom, named Ebanks, belong to the regi- 
ment of militia for St. Elizabeth’s parifh. 
For 97 years fhe praétifed midwifery, during 
which period it is tated that fhe ufhered into 
the world 143,000 perfons. She retained her 
fenfes to the laft, and followed her bulinefs 
till within two days of her death. 
At Vienna, the celebrated German drama- 
tift Schiller, of a nervous fever, 
At Verdun, in France, Lieutenant William 
Fitzgerald, fecond fon of the Vice-Provott of 
Trinity-College, Dublin, late of the frigate 
La Minerve, which, on thie 2d of July, 
3803, went aground in a fog near Cherbourg, 
and was. taken by the enemy, but not till 
after a gallant refiftance, while refiftance 
was of any avail. Heand his brother, a young 
midfhipman, only twelve years old, who 
fhared in the danger of this difaftrous event, 
were marched feveral hundred miles into the 
interior of the country, to different places of 
confinement, and ultimately to Verdun, 
where the defpair of an exchange of prifoners, 
and confequently of any farther opportunity 
of diftinguifhing himfelf in the fervice of his 
country during the remainder of the war, is 
fuppofed to have preyed upon his fpirits, and 
to have produced a decline, which on the 
_torious officer. 
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xgth of February rcleafed him from hig 
earthly captivity, and opened brighter pro. 
fpects to his view 5 for in his laft moments 
he difplayed that dignified ferenity and ftea- 
dinefs of mind, which fo well accorded with 
his charaéter through life: ‘£* Cheerful and 
refigned to the laft,” fays Captain Brenton, in 
a letter to his affli€ted father, ‘* we muft all 
moft fincerely regret him—vou, Sir, as an 
amiable and beloved fon—-mytelf as a valuable 
friend—and his country as a brave and meri-= 
I have this moment (arft 
February) returned from accompanying his 
remains to the grave: his funeral was at- 
tended by every officer of the army and navy, 
and by each he is fincerely regretted.” This 
promifing young man, thus cut off in the 
prime of life, had fought on the memorable 
rit of June, 1794, as a midfhipman on board 
the Marlborough, which, next to the Jnvin- 
cible, fuffered moft in that glorious aétion : 
though feverely wounded he refufed to quir 
his {tation till the battle was over, and he 
faw his country triumphant. A fociety of 
London merchants, who afterwards met fo? 
the purpofe of rewarding the officers who had 
chiefly diflinguithed themfelves on that glo- 
rious accafion, prefented him with a valuable 
pieceof plate with a fuitable infcription.— 
Thefe honorable teftimonies of his merit are 
the only confolation now left to his ami&ed 
relatives and friends. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
HE King of Sweden has been pleafed to open his port of Stralfund to the importation of 
Britith goods, upon conditions highly favourable to the commerce of this country. f 
The commercial intercourfe of Great Britain with both the Eaft and Weft Indies, with Ame- 
rica, and not lefs with the Mediterranean, is moft unhappily embarraffed by the failing of the 
French and. Spanifh fleets, and by the unceitainty in which we are ftill left refpe¢ting their def- 
tination. 
The French Government has lately increafed the rigour of its reftri€tions upon the trade bes 
tween England and Holland to fuch a degree, that even letters of commercial correfpondence 
between the two countries are now prohibited. 
The interruptions given to trade over Europe in confequence of the late prevalence of the yel- 
low tever in Spain and Italy, and the general fear of its importation with merchants goods, begin 
to be at an end. 
The houfe of Reinhards, at Amfterdam, has lately become bankrupt. 
have amounted to feveral hundred thoufand pounds fterling. 
Its debts are faid to 
Its failure threw a momentary 
gloom over peoples countenances, on Change, in that ¢ity- 
‘The value of the exports for the laft year, by fea from St. Peterfburgh, is the lateft date to 
which the Cuftom-houfe accompts have been fettled, amounts to 30,000,000 of roubles. 
The French 5 per cents, are at sgfr. soc. 
The value of the Dutch ftocks in general has rather rifen than fallen fince the change of the 
Government. 
The Britith 3 per cents, are at 582, 
Mr. Bolton has fivifhed a new coinage for Ireland; but, on account of fome mifunderftand- 
ing about the official warrant, the pieces remain ftill at his manufattory at Soho, near Bir 
mingham, 
siete London Docks were finally opened for the reception of fhipping, on Saturday the 
2s5tho ay. 
The average price of leather in the butt of about 561b. now varies from rs, 6d. to 1s, 114d. 
_ The underwriters of London are likely to fuffer confiderably by the recent loffes of fhipping 
in the Weft Indies. The planters, and the merchants in London, their creditors and confignees, 
allo fuffer materially by thofe depredations on the iflands by which the French have done much 
more of damage than they have gained of advantage. We are forry to learn that the mifchief 
mutt be felt more efpecially by the merchants of Glafgow and other parts of the weft of Scotiand. 
The works of the Caledonian Canal are in a rapid progrefs. Their conttruétion contributing 
MW effentially to the employment of the labourers in the Scottith Highlands, has done much to 
ercevent the emigrattons fo yery frequent before their commencement. 
